How to Use modulate in a Sentence

modulate

verb

• The music quickly modulates from its original key, changing the mood of the song.
• Because she doesn't modulate her voice, she sounds the same when she's excited as when she's sad.
• Part of Ryan's pitch has been to put away the pitchforks and modulate the tone.
  — Philip Elliott / Youngstown, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
• These large–scale, slow changes to the oceans in turn then modulate the climate.
  — David Randall, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2021
• Move the stick side to side to control the ailerons—the adjustable control surfaces at the edge of the wings, which modulate the angle of bank in a turn.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2020
• The clutch pedal is light and easy to modulate, and the shifter moves through its gates with little effort.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2020
• The brake pedal is race-car firm and easy to modulate, which is good because there's no ABS.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Dec. 2021
• This would be a game-changer in the interlinked fight to modulate climate change and protect the oceans.
  — Michelle McMurry-Heath Reprints, STAT, 23 May 2021
• There are inklings, though, from studies of the past and present, to suggest that weather will indeed modulate the spread of the pandemic.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 18 June 2020
• Still, the Mazda’s stoppers have good bite and are easy to modulate, which inspires you to push the chassis harder.
  — Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2017
• As always, the right tone is the one that’s right for you and for your friendship, so modulate accordingly.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
• Parrots use their tongue and mouth to modulate calls similar to the way humans speak.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Oct. 2023
• Nerve cells have tiny pores in their cell membranes that regulate the flow of sodium ions into the cell, which in turn modulates the firing of the cell.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 29 May 2017
• Nerve cells have tiny pores in their cell membranes that regulate the flow of sodium ions into the cell, which in turn modulates the firing of the cell.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
• If one or more wheel begins to lock, the system will modulate the brakes, preventing the lockup—and avoiding a skid.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2016
• Up to this point, Phillips has nimbly modulated the faceprint of our world so that her novel’s events are just slightly askew.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• The clouds reflect the sun’s radiation away from the Earth’s surface and modulate the exchange of heat between Earth and space.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
• The 43's brake pedal has a strong initial bite preceded by a short stroke, which was tricky to modulate in stop-and-go traffic.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 11 June 2020
• Many social, hoofed herbivores are chatty and have ways to modulate their vocal tracts to make a range of wails and grunts.
  — Todd Marshall, National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2016
• Yet that mainstream platform hasn’t led her to change her style or modulate her message.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
• Lieberson’s simple melody needs a singer to modulate the line with vowel sounds to imbue it with passion.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2021
• That was hard to modulate, and a very exciting challenge.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• The trouble is that Lee will not modulate his antic music.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• The 65cc and up bikes start to introduce manual clutches and require more rider skills to modulate the clutch lever and click through gears via the shifter.
  — Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2020
• The steering is precise enough to avoid spoiling the suspension's fun, and the pedals are plenty easy to modulate.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 18 May 2023
• On a couple of laps around my favorite section of curving roads, the steering was precise and brakes were very easy to modulate.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The new Alexa will also modulate its own voice to create a more natural-seeming back-and-forth.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• Over the years, O'Shaughnessey has learned how to modulate her voice for different characters as part of honing her craft.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• Gene editing allows small but precise changes in DNA sequences to turn genes on or off or modulate their activity.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• Tulsa Remote also continues to modulate its cohort size to adjust to the housing available.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024